Much has been written about the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--the forerunner of the CIA--and the exploits of its agents during World War II. Virtually unknown, however, is the work of the extraordinary community of scholars who were handpicked by "Wild Bill" Donovan and William L. Langer and recruited for wartime service in the OSS's Research and Analysis Branch (R&A). Known to insiders as the "Chairborne Division," the faculty of R&A was drawn from a dozen social science disciplines and challenged to apply its academic skills in the struggle against fascism. Its mandate: to collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence about the enemy.

Foreign Intelligence is the first comprehensive history of this extraordinary behind-the-scenes group. The R&A Branch assembled scholars of widely divergent traditions and practices--Americans and recent European émigrés; philosophers, historians, and economists; regionalists and functionalists; Marxists and positivists--all engaged in the heady task of translating the abstractions of academic discourse into practical politics. Drawing on extensive, newly declassified archival sources, Barry M. Katz traces the careers of the key players in R&A, whose assessments helped to shape U.S. policy both during and after the war. He shows how these scholars, who included some of the most influential theorists of our time, laid the foundation of modern intelligence work. Their reports introduced the theories and methods of academic discourse into the workings of government, and when they returned to their universities after the war, their wartime experience forever transformed the world of scholarship.

Authoritative, probing, and wholly original, Foreign Intelligence not only sheds new light on this overlooked aspect of the U.S. intelligence record, it also offers a startling perspective on the history of intellectual thought in the twentieth century.

A Comprehensive Guide
A thourough guide for anyone wishing to have a career in secret operations in America. Covers the CIA, FBI, DIA, DEA, Treasury and NSA. A good book even if you are just curious about how intellegence works in the U.S.
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THE SOURCEBOOK for all Enigma Information
This groundbreaking text on the Enigma is, without a doubt, the singular reference on the topic of Enigma solutions from 1932 through the end of WWII.It is without peer on the subject.No other book provides the depth of knowledge of this book.

What separates this book apart from the rest is not that it is the first to break the true Enigma secrets (the first publication of the Polish contribution is reportedly Kozaczuk's earlier book, Bitwa o tajemnice, Battle for Secrets, 1967).Nor is this book unique because of it's great technical descriptions of the Enigma and decryption efforts.Rather, it is the rare and vast access the author (a Polish military/intelligence historian) had with primary sources .

No other author has been as close to the primary source material as Kozaczuk.Period. His first-hand access to Marian Rejewski and other poles who contributed to cracking the Enigma cannot be replicated by any other author (other than, perhaps, Bertrand, who had only limited knowledge of early Polish efforts).

Every book since relies on Kozaczuk's reference material.If you are looking for the fountainhead of Enigma information, this book is it.

Unique Book on Enigma and Cryptanalysis
The best part of this book is Appendix C, in which Marian Rejewski describes how he and his team broke the original Enigma machine, first with paper and pencil, then with primitive "punch-cards" and finally with electrically-driven "bombes". The level of detail here is unique, and the description allows non-mathematicians to follow the Poles' progress. Because it wasn't the English who originally cracked the Enigma; it was the Poles. And Rejewski was "The Man".

The Poles Solve ENIGMA...Placed in Broad Historical Context
The author Kozaczuk summarizes the facts: "As far as the first phase--fundamental to all further work--is concerned, it has been shown that the solution to ENIGMA, in all its manifestations during the years 1933-39, was a purely Polish achievement. The mathematical methods, Polish ENIGMA doubles, and ancillary technology, when passed on to the British, enabled them to exploit this achievement in record time." (p. 95). Among non-Polish sources that recognize the fact of the Polish achievement (although not necessarily without errors), Kozaczuk, in an Appendix towards the end of this book, discusses two books reviewed by Marian Rejewski (p. 257). In another Appendix, Christopher Kasparek and Richard Woytak provide further evidence for the same (p. 225). Finally, this book goes beyond ENIGMA by providing a good deal of auxiliary historical information.

Much of what has been written in the west about the German codes is sheer nonsense. For instance, the account of Poles physically stealing an ENIGMA machine from the Germans is a cock-and-bull story (p. 292). Unfortunately, the British seemed to feel no need to acknowledge their ENIGMA debts to the Poles (pp. 207-208). It is even more disturbing to read that, after Polish agents had stolen the components of a fallen V-2 rocket in German-occupied Poland and had arranged for these to be flown to England, British agents attempted to forcibly take away these components from the Polish agents. (p. 192).

There were about 10 to the 103 power different possible combinations in ENIGMA (p. 24). But, although machines may be ostensibly infallible, humans are not. The Germans had designed ENIGMA with certain intuitively-likely internal configurations, entered information into ENIGMA a stereotypic manner, and often got careless. Evidently, the Germans never had a clue that ENIGMA had been broken (p. 89).

There are ironies in this book. One of these is the fact that the Polish General Staff, thanks to ENIGMA having been solved by the Poles years earlier, had been able to identify 80-90% of the Wehrmacht forces surrounding Poland in August 1939 (p. 61, 66), yet this was of little military benefit to Poland in the massive ensuing German attack, as the promised French attack on Germany (p. 75) never materialized. Later, the Polish cracking of ENIGMA probably had played a more important role in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain than the disproportionate number of "kills" inflicted by skilled Polish pilots (p. 187). The successful sinking of the Bismarck may owe to the Polish solution of ENIGMA no less than the tiny Polish destroyer Piorun having drawn the Bismarck's fire and thereby stalled for time. (p. 202). Still another irony is evident in Photo 13, which shows Hitler at his victory parade in Warsaw. The Fuhrer was strutting within sight of the building in which the Polish mathematicians had solved the ENIGMA before the war, thus sealing Hitler's eventual doom.

No account of espionage would be complete without discussion of traitors and collaborators. Of course, not all Polish service to the Germans was consensual. Far from it: "Volksdeutsche were citizens of various European countries, of German extraction, who, during the German occupation in World War II, officially declared themselves to be of German nationality and served the German authorities. In Polish Silesia and Pomerania, the Germans also used terror to force the populace of Polish descent to sign the Volksliste." (p. 221). Also, Kozaczuk writes: "Surveillance of a person suspecting of collaborating with the Germans was very difficult under occupation conditions." (p. 215). Although of course not written in this context, this fact addresses those who attack the Polish Underground for not assassinating more Polish informers involved in the denunciation of fugitive Jews.

It is clear that renewed German aggressive plans against Poland had long predated the rise of Hitler to power. Already by the late 1920's, all of the German political parties supported the wresting from Poland of those territories that had been under Prussian rule beginning with the time of the Partitions (p. 2). By the early 1930's, the Germans were actively and openly undermining Poland's half-rights to Danzig (Gdansk) (p. 11).

Finally, Kozaczuk provides a good description of the infamous Pawiak prison during the German occupation: "Named for its proximity to ulica Pawia--Peacock Street--the old czarist prison, built in 1829-35, would be blown up by the Nazis in August 1944, after they had processed one hundred thousand Poles--20 percent of them women--through it, murdering 37 percent of them outright and sending nearly all the rest to concentration camps." (p. 214).

The origins of the Ultra secret
After World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told King George VI:"It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war."The western Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, called Ultra a "decisive" contribution to victory.A leading light of Britain's Bletchley Park Ultra (Enigma-decryption) operation wrote in his 1982 book, "The Hut Six Story":"Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details... of the German military... Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."

This book details how mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski, in late December 1932, assisted by documents obtained by French Intelligence, reconstructed the German Enigma machine; and how he and his mathematician colleagues, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski, developed techniques and equipment to keep pace with the evolution of the Enigma's components and operating procedures.

On July 25, 1939, a bare 5 weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Poles initiated French and British intelligence representatives into the secrets of Enigma decryption.It was this that made possible the subsequent massive wartime British cryptologic effort that altered the course of World War II.

Miraculously Rejewski survived the war, for another 35 years till 1980, to produce an impressive body of papers and interviews--virtually all included in appendices and chapter notes to this book--documenting Poland's prewar and wartime cryptologic achievements.(This volume is much more than a mere translation of Kozaczuk's original, skimpily documented 1979 Polish-language book "W kregu Enigmy.")This book has aptly been called "the Bible" on the fundamental Polish contribution to Enigma decryption.

The Polish perspective on Enigma
This book tells the story of the Polish breaking of the German Enigma code before WWII and thru the early part of the war.The famous English Enigma work was based on the earlier work performed by 3 Polish mathematicians.This book tells how the Polish broke the code using mathematics (not a captured machine as is commonly thought) and details the methods used to decrypt messages when settings were changed.There is a lot of (Polish) patriotic pride in this book which occasionally gets in the way of the content, but it is an excellent book nonetheless.It includes an appendix in which the mathematician who originally broke Enigma explains exactly how he did it which is especially interesting.
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Largest, Most Comprehensive Intelligence Dictionary To Date
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Over nine thousand terms are here in 747 packed pages, covering methods of operation, organizations, operations, security, legislation, agents, codenames, cryptonyms, aliases, and more. This is twice the size of the 1992 edition.
This is a special, limited edition, beautifully bound.
No larger nor more comprehensive dictionary on intelligence terminology has ever been produced.
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The contents of Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence, and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 can be broken down into five sections: the conflict's origins, the Carter administration's response to the war, the Reagan administration's actions, changes to American policy during the Iran-Contra Affair, and the collapse of neutrality in the final two years of the war. The author boldly refutes the arguments of other authors about the war, and provides timely and relevant insights regarding American-Iraqi relations in light of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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Applicable and practical!
This well-written book on Emotional Intelligence is highly recommended for anyone who wants: (1) a good introduction of what EQ entails, and (2) a collection of applicable and practical tips to improve your EQ.This book organizes EQ into 15 scales (or qualities), and spend a chapter on each.This approach has allowed the readers to focus on one aspect of EQ at a time, instead of speaking vaguely about "someone having a low EQ because he is hot-headed..."

Depending on your profile of strengths and weaknesses, you will most certainly find some chapters more interesting and useful than others.My personal experience is that even by reading about certain qualities that I thought I was strong at, I have at times picked up invaluable insights from the book that quell my previous misconception on these topics.Overall, it's a great read for anyone who wants a more systematic survey of the many angles of Emotional Intelligence.

Gives excellent insight into the EQ World

The authors do a great job in defining EQ and differentiating it from IQ. While it offers an comprehensive overview of EQ from very qualified authors, it goes beyond most books on this topic. It provides us with stories, antecdotes and tips for increasing our EQ. The exciting news is that unlike IQ, we are able to increase our EQ. The strength of this book is in showing us how.

Harvey Deutschendorf

good practical resource on EQ
This book is a good resource if you work with EQ.Helpful for your own benefit as well as helping others.It provides practical exercises and is especially beneficial if you use the EQ-i assessment, since the book is organized around the scales of that instrument.

Practical, Easy to Read and Apply to Real Life
Useful summary of what EQ is all about. Describes how to understand the connection to success in relationships and business. Practical exercises help learn ways to apply the theories to improve emotional intelligence quotient (EQ).

Great for People wanting an Introduction on EQ-i
This books is very easy to read, it goes through all the stages and criteria of being 'Emotionally Intelligent', while showing examples/stories on different situations and how one could handle it with greater EQ-i ability.

Although I have some backgrounds on this subject, I still find this book encouraging, and it's good to refer back to once in a while.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to better their EQ-i or just curious.
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Product DescriptionThis ground breaking new study lifts the lid on the top secret department 12 of directorate's [special operations]. The elite inner core of the KGB first directorate and its successor, the Russian foreign intelligence service. ... Read more

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Needed Remider that Espionage Continues
An excellent study of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian foreign intelligence operations against Western biological warfare activities (which the author believes were substantial).This book is to be distinguished from that of another defector, Ken Alibeck, who wrote of the extensive Soviet biological warfare establishment of which he was a part.The book is notable for its description of the extent to which the espionage operations continue under the Russian successor agencies to the KGB

A eye-opening coverage
Alexander Kouzminov's Biological Espionage: Special Operations Of The Soviet And Russian Foreign Intelligence Services In The West provides an eye-opening coverage not just of modern biological threats as depicted in the news, but of the history of Department 12 special operations, the elite core of the KGB charged with encouraging biological espionage and terrorism. This is no rumor title: one of the KGB's top operatives writes this expose, breaking silence for the first time to outline plans, tactics, and what others in the West and developing world are capable of achieving.

Reality, Truth and Hope
I have read this book in one sitting and found it to be significant.For the first time I have learnt about super-secret Department 12 of Russian and Soviet Intelligence, the tasks of which were biological espionage, preperations and realization of biological acts of terror, in the case of war or military conflict.

Information in this book is quite explosive, even though "Biological Espionage" is clearly not written as a scientific manual or a report for special services.Anyone can understand the main ideas of this book.The voice and emotions of the author are felt quite strongly throughout the whole book. Dr Kouzminov went through a personal transformation from (as he called himself) a "poacher" for Soviets to a person who has made a very important input for the good of world-peace.Clearly the main purpose for the author was to raise the awareness of biological espionage and acts of biological terror on a world-scale.Kouzminov writes about his thoughts for the measures and mechanisms on how we can control epxeriments with bio-hazard materials.

Of course, like any new controversial work, this book would have its' followers, those who want unity between man-kind in order to stop all wars; as well as enemy critics, who would rush to label Kouzminov as a suspicious and non-credible author and a "bad scientist".An example of the latter is the review of R. Zelinskas, (who was a determined searcher for bio-weapons in Iraq).He falsifies the facts of the book and illegally libels Kouzminov.In "Biological Espionage" Kouzminov hopes, believes and suggests, but the reviewer knows everything for sure, (in fact, Puschino is about 300 km away from Zagorsk in an opposite, further part of Moscow region; and a large body of respected scientists around the world currently insist on the possibility of the creation of a genetic weapon - the possibilities of today's biology are so vast, that anything should be taken into account).

The author of "Biological Espionage" calls for us to stop thinking as if we are still immersed in Cold War, as traditional thoughts usually presume that West is always "the good guys" and the East is the "suspicious and agrresive bad guys".

I'm not sure that Zelinskas, after the failure to find weapons in Iraq, has done anything to prevent the invasion and the massive blood-shed of innocent lives.On the contrary, books like "Biological Espionage" call for humanitarian unity - to fight for the peace of the current world and of the future generations.

Reality, fantasy, or disinformation (or a bit of each)?
The book by Alexander Kouzminov, "Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services," certainly left me with mixed, disturbed feelings. On the positive side, it is interesting in what it tells about a previously unknown aspect of Soviet/Russian espionage - how it was concentrated on collecting information on biological developments in both civilian and military applied microbiology throughout the democratic nations. Kouzminov's claims that the Soviet secret service had spies in both the UK and US biological warfare (BW) programs, if true, has frightening implications because it indicates yet more counterintelligence failures by these countries and, of course, information vital to our security would have been compromised.
But on the negative side, little actual information is provided about the accomplishments of these Soviet/Russian intelligence activities. The spies in the West are not named and the information that was collected about the UK and US BW programs is not specified. I read again and again about "significant" information being collected by Soviet agents, but little if any clue is provided as to what this information was and why it was significant. And the author is needlessly secretive about some facts; for example, he mentions that there were two BW facilities near Pushchino, but does not name them. Of course, it is well known in the West that a Biopreparat facility in Obolensk and Ministry of Defense institute in Zagorsk (now Sergiyev Posad) fit the bill because they are near Pushchino, so why the hesitancy about naming them?
I was also troubled by scientific/technical inaccuracies. For a supposed biomedical expert, he should know that the bacterial pathogen Bacillus anthracis is not a virus and that the bacterial disease tularemia is not caused by a virus. Even a first year student in microbiology knows this. There are other, equally obvious technical mistakes.
The book's final chapter is almost a joke, was it not that for the possibility that misguided or ill-willed persons might disseminate Kouzminov's absurd claims as facts. The KGB had plenty of experience doing so in the early 1980s when as part of a disinformation campaign they publicized claims made by an East German scientist that HIV was created in Fort Detrick. If Kouzminov is to be believed, almost every unusual disease outbreaks in the 1990s and early 2000s was caused by a deliberate release of a BW agent or an accidental release from a BW facility. Even in Africa and India, where it is hard to imagine why anyone would use biological weapons or that biological weapons laboratories exist and are operating. His claim that the strain of Hantavirus that caused a Hantavirus disease outbreak in Four Corners in 1994 probably was engineered to attack specifically Navajo Indians of "middle height" is ludicrous. It is as if he neglects a huge body of scientific literature demonstrating clearly that persons throughout North America of all races, ages, and sizes have been the unfortunate victims of Hantavirus disease since 1994.
In the final analysis, I had the feeling that Kouzminov might have made a deal with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) along these lines; "I get to publish a book about a potentially interesting subject, but you get to edit it so it contains no really important or interesting information. This way the exploits of the KGB and, by extension the FSB, are glorified at no cost in terms of loss of security. Further, if some of its information is misused to denigrate the U.S. or other Western democracies, so much the better." Or it could be the start of another disinformation campaign, but one that this time is carried out by the FSB. Anyway, in the final analysis, the book is a huge disappointment.

Raymond A. Zilinskas

Opening the Veil on Bio-Warfare
Biological attacks have long been in the back of people's minds. Then just after 9/11, anthrax was sent to several offices around the United States. (The author is suspicious that this was a small attack, possibly conducted by a foreign intelligence agency, to measure the reaction of the US Government to the application of biological or toxin weapons.)

In this book Alexander Kouzminev, a scientist at the Soviet Union's biological research unit of the KGB tells the story of what the Soviets have been doing in the areas of biological weapons. In this story, he not only talks about the work of their lab, but provides valuable insight into how such weapons work, how they can be distributed, and how frighteningly effective they can be.

This is the first work I've seen that begins to life the veil of secrecy surrounding biological warfare. It's an important book.
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Product DescriptionThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., as passed in 1978, provided a statutory framework for the use of electronic surveillance in the context of foreign intelligence gathering. In so doing, Congress sought to strike a delicate balance between national security interests and personal privacy rights. Subsequent legislation expanded federal laws dealing with foreign intelligence gathering to address physical searches, pen registers and trap and trace devices, and access to certain business records. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, P.L. 107-56, made significant changes to some of these provisions.Further amendments were included in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, P.L. 107-108, and the Homeland Security Act of 2002, P.L. 107-296, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, P.L. 108-458, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, P.L. 109-177, and the USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006, P.L. 109-178. In addressing international terrorism or espionage, the same factual situation may be the focus of both criminal investigations and foreign intelligence collection efforts.Some of the changes in FISA under these public laws are intended, in part, to facilitate information sharing between law enforcement and intelligence elements.In its Final Report, the 9/11 Commission noted that the removal of the pre-9/11 'wall' between intelligence and law enforcement 'has opened up new opportunities for co-operative action within the FBI.' P.L. 110-55 limits the construction of the term 'electronic surveillance' so that it does not cover surveillance directed at a person reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. It also creates a mechanism for acquisition, without a court order under a certification by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Attorney General, of foreign intelligence information concerning a person reasonably believed to be outside the United States.The Protect America Act provides for review by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) of the procedures by which the DNI and the Attorney General determine that such acquisitions do not constitute electronic surveillance. In addition, P.L.110-55 authorises the Attorney General and the DNI to direct a person with access to the communications involved to furnish aid to the government to facilitate such acquisitions, and provides a means by which the legality of such a directive may be reviewed by the FISC petition review pool. A decision by a judge of the FISC petition review pool may be appealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, and review by the U.S. Supreme Court may be sought by petition for writ of certiorari. ... Read more

Product DescriptionThis book is an overview of The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was passed in 1978 and provides a statutory framework for the use of electronic surveillance in the context of foreign intelligence gathering. Congress sought to strike a delicate balance between national security interests and personal privacy rights. Subsequent legislation expanded federal laws dealing with foreign intelligence gathering to address physical searches, pen registers and trap and trace devices and access to certain business records. The Patriot Act of 2001 made significant changes to some of these provisions. In addressing international terrorism or espionage, the same factual situation may be the focus of both criminal investigations and foreign intelligence collection efforts. Some of these changes in FISA under these public laws are intended, in part, to facilitate information sharing between law enforcement and intelligence elements. In its Final Report, the 9/11 Commission noted that the removal of the pre-9/11 'wall' between intelligence and law enforcement 'has opened up new opportunities for co-operative action within the FBI'. ... Read more

Product DescriptionA decade on from its birth, emotional intelligence is attracting more attention than ever before. Why? Because of its proven connection to performance. Tomorrow's leaders will have to be facilitators who work collaboratively to help others develop their potential, and this will require emotionally intelligent skills and attitudes. Against this landscape, Applied EI provides the tools and advice needed to develop and manage a relationship with yourself and create positive relationships with others - the twin cornerstones of emotional intelligence.

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